随着我国经济的快速发展,劳动力市场的教育回报率受到广泛关注。利用三省20个村庄近3500个农村劳动力的大样本调查资料,采用改进的Mincer模型,分析我国城乡流动人口教育回报状况以及地区间的差异。研究发现,我国城乡流动人口年平均教育回报率约为2%,其中初中、高中及以上的教育回报率约为3.3%,高于小学及以下的教育回报;城乡流动人口接受职业培训的回报率显著高于教育回报率,这暗示职业培训在城乡流动人口的人力资本积累中起着非常关键的作用;不同区域之间的教育和职业培训回报率存在明显差异,这些差异说明由于迁移成本等原因,当前我国非农部门对农业部门的溢出效应还存在一定的区域性。
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the rate of return to schooling, as well as training premium and regional comparison for rural migrants in China. Based on modified version of Mincer model and introduce new perspective to view re- turn to education for rural migrants, which is usually thought downwardly biased due to omitted ability or sample selection. A representative data set is employed to reduce potential measurement error and estimation bias. The return tO schooling for rural migrants is about 2 percent, while average yearly rate of return to education for people with secondary schooling and above is a- bout 3.3 percent, confirming non -linearity in rate of return to education. Compared with interest rate deposits at the same time, no evidence support downward biased estimation. Training can gain much more benefit than schooling, indicating that it plays more vital role in human capital accumulation for rural laborers transferring to non - farm employment. The provincial disparity in education rctum to migrants indicates poor education prevent people from earning equally. Identifying rate of return to education and training, as well as regional wage disparity using rural migrant data is critical for China to continue market - oriented reformation in labor market. This paper introduces new perspective to evaluate estimation bias in return to education. Comparison of return to education with interest rate deposits at the same time suggests that our estimation of return to schooling was downward biased.